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Maulvi Saif-ur Mansur (also Saifullah Rahman Mansour, Saifullah Rehman Mansoor; died c. 2007) was a senior Taliban commander.
Saifullah's father, Nasrullah Mansur, had been one of the leading militia commanders who fought against the Soviet Union during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan.
Quoting a former Taliban diplomat Time magazine described Saifullah as "a pious and emotional man of limited education and vision, naive and easily misled."
Prior to the American invasion of Afghanistan Saifullah was the deputy commander of the Taliban's garrison at Kargha.
He fled to Pakistan following the deposition of the Taliban in late 2001, and was reported to have rallied 1,000 fighters by March 2002. Saifullah was reported by Pahjwok Afghan News to have said "The fight against America for the supremacy of Islam and the defense of our country will continue until our last breath".
In May 2002 Time magazine described Saifullah as an emerging hero in the Taliban, after his men destroyed an American helicopter, killing seven American soldiers.
In 2005 Pakistani officials offered contradictory comments about whether Saifullah was still alive.
Saifullah was reported by Pajhwok Afghan News, quoting a source in the National Intelligence Department to have been killed in combat in 2007 or 2008.
The Indian press reported that a militant seized in disputed Kashmir in November 2010 asserted that Saifullah Mansur had been the "masool" or leader in Pakistan's Sarhad Province.